Can we get this merged for 6.9? The patch has been around for awhile now. Ampere Computing develops high end ARM processor that support an ever increasing number of processors. The default 256 processors are not enough for our newer products. The default is used by distros and therefore our customers cannot use distro kernels because the number of processors is not supported. One of the objections against earlier patches to increase the limit was that the memory use becomes too high. There is a feature called CPUMASK_OFFSTACK that configures the cpumasks in the kernel to be dynamically allocated. This was used in the X86 architecture in the past to enable support for larger CPU configurations up to 8k cpus. With that is becomes possible to dynamically size the allocation of the cpu bitmaps depending on the quantity of processors detected on bootup. This patch enables that logic if more than 256 processors are configured and increases the default to 512 processors. Further increases may be needed if ARM processor vendors start supporting more processors. Given the current inflationary trends in core counts from multiple processor manufacturers this may occur. Tested-by: Eric Mackay <eric.mackay@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@xxxxxxxxx> --- Original post: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg369701.html V1->V2 - Keep quotation marks - Remove whiltespace damage - Add tested by Index: linux/arch/arm64/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ linux/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -1407,7 +1407,21 @@ config SCHED_SMT config NR_CPUS int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-4096)" range 2 4096 - default "256" + default "512" + +# +# Determines the placement of cpumasks. +# +# With CPUMASK_OFFSTACK the cpumasks are dynamically allocated. +# Useful for machines with lots of core because it avoids increasing +# the size of many of the data structures in the kernel. +# +# If this is off then the cpumasks have a static sizes and are +# embedded within data structures. +# +config CPUMASK_OFFSTACK + def_bool y + depends on NR_CPUS > 256 config HOTPLUG_CPU bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
